Chinese Instructor: No Shoulder Che

How I'm shaking my head at the irony here. While the recent Pro Ride motorcycle course I took and associated road test in Vancouver emphasized shoulder checks to no avail, I just had a chat with a motorcycle riding instructor in Shanghai and he said NOT to do the shoulder checks. The reason? Safety. The instructor`s point was that with the time taken to do a shoulder check, some other vehicle or person would enter your field of vision and your head would be looking the other way. In that split second you would have an accident. So he tells his students to do what every Shanghainese does already on the roads: Just go ahead and look ahead.